Kurds call for help to fight Islamic State in northern Iraq

Kurdish Peshmerga forces in northern Iraq are calling for more support from the United States in their fight against Islamic State militants. 

The town of Makhmour, around 40 kilometres southwest of Irbil, is now firmly under Peshmerga control after being in danger of falling to IS militants.

But they say they will need more help to push the Islamists back further.